ee88sbp@surrey.ac.uk (Sean Broderick Purdy) (12/12/90)
Does anybody know if/where I can get an AppleTalk card for the PS/2? Apparantly, the card sold by Apple is only ISA & not MCA. Info regarding availability in England & price etc. much welcomed. TNX in advance, Sean. ee88sbp@ee.surrey.ac.uk **** HELP, I'VE GOT EXAMS!!!! ****
smith@ucs.sfu.ca (Richard Smith) (12/19/90)
I have such a card - the DAYNAtalk MC. I do NOT recommend it, although it does work. There is another card, from DYNA (confusingly) I believe. I do not have experience with this card but it is similarly prices (both are available for just under USD 400 from Mac mailorder companies). The DAYNA installation software clobbered my autoexec.bat, complained about device drivers in my config.sys that didn't exist and generally did not impress me. The board is not compatible with AppleShare PC (fabulous software if you have a PC in a Mac environment) and neither company has any plans (I asked both Apple and DAYNA) to change this. The DYNA card is included in the list of supported cards in the AppleShare PC software. The DAYNA board is the recommended one for people who have a Novell network and want to add Macs, apparently. I do not need this feature and would rather have better support for Appletalk. The DAYNA people did send me a copy of a program called PCPRINT (for free, nice of them) which would allow me to print to the local laserwriter much as appleshare/pc does. Unfortunately it hangs my computer (IBM PS2/Model 70). QEMM reports an illegal operation or some such thing so I suspect that the software was not tested with QEMM or with a '386 (!). This is my experience. Hope it is useful. usersmth@cc.sfu.ca usersmth@SFU.bitnet smith@whistler.sfu.ca C 70)